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About Walpurgisnacht in Europe

Europe
EVENT NAME:
Walpurgisnacht (870 AD)
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Anniversaries , Christian
European Countries , Festivals & Fairs
Dates Active:
Begins: Apr 30, 2025
Ends: May 01, 2025
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Walpurgisnacht is a favorite Christian feast day with European college students. European legends in Medieval times taught that witches and warlocks would fly through the land on this night, the eve of St Walpurga's feast (May 1). St. Walpurga (Patron saint of coughs, storms, hydrophobia, and sailors) was a Devonshire Englishwoman born in 770 AD. She was sent to Germany as a young nun and took over monastery duties after her brother died. Upon her death, it is said the walls of her tomb oozed with an oil with unusual healing properties.

Like many traditions, Christianity and common pagan customs intertwined to create this unique holiday of bonfires, spindles, grain, witches, warlocks, and merrymaking. Farmers believed their crops would grow as high as they could jump on this day. Bells adorned the necks of cattle, and women hopped over brooms. All worn-out items in the home feed the bonfire as part of spring cleaning.

Today, college students in Germany, Scandinavia, and other nations have made this a huge Halloween-style party that signals the end of the school year and the beginning of summer. The largest parties are in the Harz Mountains of Germany.

The date is the anniversary of May 1, 870 AD, when Pope Adrian II canonized Saint Walpurga.

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Oct 10, 2024

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